“The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook”

“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”

“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”